Excerpt from Transactions of the Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 2: March, 1909 I AM not here this evening with any idea of delivering a lecture on spirochetes, for I quite appreciate the fact that there are many present who know very much more about the subject than I am ever likely to do. My reason for putting these specimens of a spirocheta before you is that during my work in India I came across it while examining for tubercle bacilli, and following up the case I was led to believe that it was probably the cause of a distinct type of fever associated with bronchitis. The story of the find is this: In January, 1907, a European guard of the East Indian Railway was sent to me from Delhi as a case of malaria] cachexia requiring hospital treatment. He was admitted into the East Indian Railway Hospital at Tundla, and was seen by me the following morning. He was anaemic, very weak, with no definite enlarge ment of the spleen, and had a temperature of 104 Degrees F. His blood was examined for malarial parasites with a negative result. On the second or third day I found his temperature on a four-hour chart was continuous, keeping between and 104 Degrees F., and that he was troubled with a very irritable cough, bringing up a lot of thin watery expectoration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.